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Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer

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Post by david-given »

szimmer1 wrote: post #23

This has nothing to do with the Amiga, but shameless plug for a cool in-browser ray-tracer we made for a school project http://camargo.github.io/tracejs/#/ Rendering times become exponentially slower with more objects in the scene (100% native Javascript, hence 0 hardware acceleration) but it's fun to play with if you're in the mood!

If you want the other extreme, these days you can do real-time raytracing entirely in an OpenGL shader:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XdfXDB

(There's no geometry in that scene --- the shader is run for each pixel independently!)

Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer

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Post by guru_meditation »

peterfirefly wrote: post #27
guru_meditation wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hardware owes it all to Jay Miner and Ron Nicholson (rhn). Jay Miner passed a long time away from a long term kidney condition and is still out there doing lots of stuff: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/photo-cv.html Notice how he was the guy behind the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) for the Mac and the beautifully minimized Apple //c in addition to being one of the key persons in creating the essence of Amiga hardwar…

I thought Wendell Sander did the IWM? http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Five_Different_Ma... (and lots of other pages.)

I consider Andy Hertzfeld's site a very accurate reference as well as a patchwork of authentic fascinating stories that just draws you in.

However, Ron Nicholson (rhn) is on the Mac case signatures, he also did major work on Apple //, so I find it strange that he is not mentioned anywhere on folklore.org . I think this is something worth researching..

Re: A JavaScript Port of the 1986 Amiga Juggler Raytracer

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Post by guru_meditation »

FeepingCreature wrote: post #25
guru_meditation wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hardware owes it all to Jay Miner and Ron Nicholson (rhn). Jay Miner passed a long time away from a long term kidney condition and is still out there doing lots of stuff: http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/photo-cv.html Notice how he was the guy behind the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) for the Mac and the beautifully minimized Apple //c in addition to being one of the key persons in creating the essence of Amiga hardwar…

> Jay Miner passed a long time away from a long term kidney condition and is still out there doing lots of stuff Like he'd let a little thing like death stop him! :)

Ha! :) Sorry, meant to write "rhn is still out there", but I dropped I replied to hastily and by the time I figured it out it was too late to edit my post..
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